FREMONT, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — March 15, 2011 —
SGI
(NASDAQ:
SGI), a trusted leader in technical computing, today announced
record-scaling certification and immediate availability of
SGI®
Altix® UV with
Windows
Server 2008 R2. This
certification
represents the largest and most powerful certified instance to date of
Windows Server, and takes technical and data-intensive workloads to new
levels of speed and scalability.

“Altix UV can now scale Windows Server technology to record levels,”
said SGI CEO Mark J. Barrenechea. “Customers can deploy with confidence
their mission-critical software on larger scale hardware platforms
supported by Microsoft and SGI with Intel® Xeon®-based processors. We
are continuing our joint development work with Microsoft, and expect to
scale Windows Server even further in the very near term.”

With Windows Server 2008 R2 availability on Altix UV, the world’s
fastest and most scalable shared-memory computer, the entire catalog of
Windows applications, including Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 for data
warehousing and data mining tools built with Business Intelligence
Development Studio, can now take advantage of the scalability of Altix
UV. This solution allows users to expand analytics and simulation
capabilities with the addressability of its large memory. As a result,
larger quantities of data can be analyzed and more real-time business
decisions made possible. Technical applications including MathWorks
MATLAB and Wolfram Mathematica 8 also benefit from Altix UV’s large
compute capability in a single and easily maintained instance of Windows
Server.

“We are enabling an entirely new class and generation of customers to
solve complex challenges more rapidly and effectively than ever before,”
said Rajeeb Hazra, general manager of High Performance Computing at
Intel. “By combining the power of the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series
with SGI’s high-performance Altix UV system and standard Windows
programs, we can collectively address the growing demand for high speed
and scalable technical computing.”